When the boat came to port Revy and Eda greeted them.

Dutch and Benny came out first then Rock walked behind them carrying something big made of Pizza boxes, brown paper bags and duct tape.

Revy "Did you give them hell?"

Benny "it was literally like I was in an biblical apocalyptic hellfire storm with these two demons raining hellfire down on to the 700 damned pirate souls."

Revy"it's not like you to over dramatise things Benny you usually say the blunt truth when it comes to fire fights."

Benny"I'm not exaggerating these two literally killed every single pirate with one single bullet, firing in 10 minutes 700 rounds in single shot mode while changing position every time they cleared a boat at dusk."

Revy " Dutch how did you learn to shoot so good?"

Dutch"Rock's training regime, speaking of Rock he wants to give you something"

Rock then steps up and faces Revy" I brought this for you as a present I hope you like it?"

Eda "Ooh I bet it's some flowers in a vase."

Revy"doubt it but whatever it is I will cherish it always unlike a certain man that I gave a certain shirt to."

Rock visibly shook his body in abhorrence knowing the shirt in question.

Revy then eagerly ripped the carefully made box apart and inside was a Kalashnikov with a skull and crossbones engraved into the sheet metal below the charging handle in front of the fire selector lever, she then noticed the sling, then the folding stock and finally she noticed the grenade launcher attached underneath there also was a tactical vest that had a Skull and crossbones patch stitched on it.

Revy "Rock I, I can't believe this, this is the best fucking present anyone has ever given me in my entire fucking life time. Holy Fuck Rock you are Fucking awesome."

She then put on the vest.

Rock "we can test it out in my jungle training ground today."

Revy "Its only fair that I give you a present in return, your coming with me."

She then grabs and yanks his hand forcing him to run behind her heading straight to the HQ with her new gun in the other hand.

Eda smiles and turns to Dutch "It's about time they got together."

Dutch " Benny mind helping me transport our haul to the Lagoon HQ"

Eda " another haul if it's anything like the last one,are you trying to compete with the Ripoff Church as arms dealers?"

Dutch "no it's mainly for free bullets and ammunition, there is no point in throwing away perfectly good guns either we could sell them to you if you offer a high enough price. Ammo and weapons that uses the ammo types are for sale they include 7.62 NATO, 5.56 NATO as well as 5.56x39, .44 magnum, 500 smith and wesson, 38 special and .45 acp.

The weapons to that are also for sale with empty magazines and no ammo are all Kalashnikov models and RPG-7's as well as Tactical vests.

I spent an actual weight of a tonne of pirate blood and countless bullets getting them so I expect a worthwhile price."

Eda "an actual tonne of blood I don't believe it."

Dutch "does 700 pirates blood add up to a tonne of blood."

Eda in shock "What!? 7..7 hun-dred bodies, holy fuck how many bullets did you use it must have been at least 10 000 rounds. If you only used bullets."

Dutch" we used nowhere near that much."

Eda "you must have improved from last time we worked together."

Dutch " I did"

Eda" I was promised a pay check from Revy of 1000 American when you got back."

Dutch sighing getting out approximately 10 notes, counted it then handed it to Eda "there 1000 plus 100 more."

Eda "getting on my good side has consequences Dutch" as she positions her self in a sensual manner and winks at Dutch licking her lips." She was not wearing the Nuns Habit but her casual clothes that she usually does when having a drink at the yellow flag.

Dutch smiles "later I got work to do see you round Eda."

Eda pouted" such a shame, oh well later it is Dutch."

Eda then slowly turns her body showing all her curves and makes sure to walk sexily so that her butt moves around as she walks.

Dutch "Dayum!" Looking at her ass as it moved.

Both Benny and Dutch started carrying the weapons and ammo to the HQ Armoury and keeps them organised as they were in the boat.

The next day after breakfast Rock withdrew 10 000 American , Rock paid Benny for the Ammo Cart giving him 5500.

Rock "Revy wanna practice shooting and military skills I picked up when surviving for that year and a half. Dutch now is well on his way to becoming fully trained."

Revy "Dutch on his way to be fully trained you make it sound like he's fucking new to this and that you're a fucking veteran."

Rock"he could barely kill anyone using a Kalashnikov like he was before but now after my tutelage he took out at least 350 pirates with as many bullets. Plus now he is faster, stronger, has more endurance and his reaction time has improved plus he can now shoot enemies through walls without first seeing them or hearing them."

Revy "I call bullshit on that last bit."

Rock "first get your gun, your vest and a few full magazines, I'll get mine and the targets as well as the launcher."

They got all those things

Rock as he walked outside with Revy and put all the equipment in the back of the companies Pontiac GTO.

Rock noticed in the service bay of the four car garage a car he had never seen in there before a

Dark blue 1969 Ford Falcon 351 GT with black racing stripes the engine was out and it looked like Dutch was adding a supercharger to it, Dutch always carried the original keys of the Pontiac and a key for the garage door.

There was a traffic jam at the port some truck crashed and blocked the road for everyone. Then Rock saw a car that piqued his interest it was a 1969 white Ford Mustang that had a slim bug catcher blower that didn't obscure the drivers vision the car also had black racing stripes.

He walked straight to wards the car and when he got next to car he said " hey man nice car I see you have a 1969 Ford Mustang GT500 and added a slim profile bug catcher say you willing to part with it for say 4000 American cash right here right now." Taking out some cash and waving it.

The driver then realised what he heard and realised it was a serious offer " sure man I'll take the cash then come back with the owner slip"

Rock "me and my friend here will go to the registry office with you."

The owner reluctantly agreed Revy got in the back, Rock sat in the drivers seat of his new car and the former owner sat next to him.

He then peeled off and slowly drove down the foot path till he came to open road, then once there he floored it and the car launched forward pushing them deep into their seats. He then slowed down to the regulation speed and drove to the registration office and got the paper work paid the man in cash for the car and got a dozen witnesses signatures so he can't be accused of stealing it then completed the paperwork to change ownership now in the system it was his.

Revy then sat next to him in his new car"I can't believe the balls you've got just walking up to a guy waving cash and buying his car from under his seat."

Rock" it's good the garage fits 3 cars and has a bay for repairing them with a lift, gotta thank Dutch for doubling the size of the garage two years ago and adding the repair station when I worked as your negotiator."

He then drove the car back to HQ took the stuff out of the company GTO and put it in the boot of his Mustang.

He then drove to his training grounds speeding on the highways. On his way there he bought a state of the art car security system for the car that used both fingerprint and iris scanners and a wheel clamp for the back wheel.

Once he parked the car on the edge of the training grounds, and put the wheel clamp on. Got all his equipment and set it, Revy got hers.

Rock "when your ready to shoot say pull, use the single shot function and only use one bullet per target, I know you can shoot straight I've seen you use those two guns of yours on targets that didn't move much, you just need to get used to moving targets, you are not bad at long range you are bad at long range moving targets I saw sparks fly off the helicopter when you used that sniper rifle Revy and it was dead on to the pilot which then was shot through the windscreen by you remember."

Revy" yeah "

Rock "So remember 1 shot per target so make sure that it is in single fire mode. When ready say pull."

Revy "Pull"

She missed

Rock "lead the shot a little less this is not close range."

Revy"pull"

She nicks the plate and it breaks in half.

Rock"better you'll practice till you run out of bullets for all the magazines you brought."

Three hours later

The last bullet is fired.

Rock"your hitting them but not reliably."

Rock" We will now focus on how to efficiently change mags without dropping them here I will show you how to do it slowly, you watch then copy."

Rock first disconnected and removed the magazine 1 out of the gun with his right hand then with that same hand grabbed a magazine 2 from his vest and pushed it in the gun till it clicked, then let go of only the magazine 2 and put the magazine 1 in the spot where he got the other magazine.

Revy copied him exactly.

Rock "now keep practicing until you get fast enough to reload a magazine in this way in less than a second and be able to reliably reload from all your magazine pouches. Like this"

Rock then quickly removed reloaded and replaced the all 8 magazines from each of his pouches in a total of 4 seconds.

Revy "holy fuck your fast maybe we should call you quick hands."

Rock "Practice this for as long as it takes until you can do your whole vest in four seconds as you are starting out and have 4 pouches starting from now. "

Revy kept practicing getting faster and faster, after 4 hours she was reliably able to reload her gun and replace her magazines in four seconds.

With magazine training done it was time to move on to weight endurance training.

Rock"put these 1 kilogram weights on your arms legs and chest you will train physically like you normally do. When you can do the same as you could before you put the weights on I will increase the weight."

Revy silently complies.

After an hour of exercises with the weights on.

Rock"now time to improve reaction time."

He started poking at Revy "your supposed to dodge."

After an hour of attempted dodging.

Rock" now moving on to the being able to sense people through walls that I was talking about. It is called sensing energy. You will not understand it with a closed mind you need to open up your mind to all possibilities and take the approach that nothing is impossible. Once you get yourself in that mind set we can start, I have all day."

Revy "what is this new age bullshit your trying to sell me?"

Rock" I learnt these as a defence mechanism after those mercenaries left me to die, I swam to shore cauterised my wound, then later that night they came back looking for me, after I was sure they had found me when one was staring forward then his head snapped straight in my direction, my natural animal instincts kicked in and I some some how reduced the concentration of energy in my gut, then after a minute. He shrugged his shoulders and continued looking forwards.

I think some of those mercenaries can sense energy.

That was also the day I learnt to sense others energy and the energy that they gave off is similar to what mine is now."

Revy " did you just say that other humans also know about sensing energies and they have energies similar to yours, what does that even mean. I thought that was just this new age bullshit they sell to weak minded people"

Rock " it means that they are as strong as me, as fast as me, have a similar reaction time to me and can most likely shoot like me. I trained to this point thinking all soldiers even you were like that minus the sensing energy part, so for my survival I trained until I reached their level."

Revy " holy Fucking shit those guys can shoot like you well they did use very few bullets"

Rock" I was their target bullets cost money and they were not paid to kill you."

Revy" holy fucking shit, all those times that I thought they missed me, they actually hit their target keeping me pinned down."

Revy "alright after hearing that story I believe you I'll open my mind to these possibilities."

Revy just relaxes her mind and stops thinking about how impossible it sounds. Until her mind was blank.

Revy"let's learn this new skill then."

Rock "now it is easiest to first remove the weights and sit down comfortably."

Revy does exactly that

Rock"now close your eyes and concentrate on your breathing and nothing else."

Seeing that she is just breathing and not fidgeting

Rock"now breath in deeply very slowly, then very slowly breathe out. This is called meditation"

Rock noticing that Revy is doing exactly as he said.

Rock"now while breathing I want you to just feel your body not with your hands but with your mind, first let's start easy, feel your heart beat it is not a rush just let the feeling come."

Revy "I feel it strongly beating in my chest almost like it is shaking the entire left side."

Rock"Good that's a start now I want you to resume your meditation, I now want you to explore your body with your mind start with the heart I want you find energy or heat there."

Revy " I feel a tiny heat where my heart is beating but there is also another much larger heat in my gut."

Rock"that is your own personal energy. Now that you can feel your energy I want you to listen to my voice and just feel the environment around you."

Revy "I feel the wind hitting my face, the cold wind and a shiver down my spine."

Rock"now try and feel in my direction"

Revy "what do you mean."

Rock" just listen and feel your own energy then feel for energies around you let the energies appear to you don't fake force them to be there let them come."

Revy just sits their with closed eyes for a full minute then

Revy suddenly opening her eyes looking in Rocks direction "holy shit that energy I feel it's fucking yours, it's easy double mine."

Rock"right now your range should be within 10 metres. At least that what it was for me and I had half the energy that you are currently putting out. "

Revy "holy shit 10 meters in battle, being able to see through walls is a game breaker."

Rock "keep practicing and you will be able to feel the entirety of Roanapur."

Revy"WHAT!? The FUCKING WHOLE of Roanapur? Seriously, holy shit your not fucking joking are you?."

Rock "back to the exercise meditate then feel your energy in your gut try and spread it around your body as evenly as you can by trying to grab it with your mind and moving it, try to move it as you breath out then hold it when you breath in, continue spreading it out in all directions as you breath out again. Oh and it hurts"

Revy after a while started wincing as she breathed out, she kept wincing for about a minute until she thought she was finished spreading out her energy.

Rock feeling Revy's energy"that's really good, you are now pretty much As hidden from people that can sense ki as you can get, you now feel like a small wild animal like a rat."

Rock "remember all this special training and practice it everyday we will continue training like this until you are double your energy."

It was now dusk Rock and Revy put away all the equipment into the back of Rocks Ford Mustang, he then removed the clamp. Got in and started the car revving the engine, turning on the lights, Revy then got in and they drove back to HQ.

When he got there he stopped the car letting purr in front of the garage looked in his pocket he still had the keys to the Pontiac and the key to open the lock on the garage door. He then opened the garage door, got back in the car did a three point turn and then reversed slowly in to an empty space next to the Pontiac turned the lights off then the engine and got out, Revy did so as well he opened the boot and took out the empty magazines his vest and his rifle leaving everything else he locked the boot. He then locked both doors to the Mustang then when Revy went inside the HQ he locked the garage door. 'I need

to get a spare key. I do live here after all.'

He then went in the HQ and locked the door heading straight to his room putting away his guns. Then headed to Revy's room.

The next day early in the morning at about 6 am before most of them had woken up Dutch yelled in his loudest voice from outside the HQ facing the garage he just opened "Everybody get the fuck up right now " he fired a gun shot to emphasise his point.

All three half asleep lagoon company employees fully dressed in there normal clothes ran their way out of their room to out the HQ then to where Dutch was.

When they got there they all saw why he had called them, there was an unknown white 1969 Mustang GT500 with black racing stripes installed with a low profile bug catcher blower parked next to the Pontiac.

Dutch "Did anyone give the spare garage door key to some one to store their car?"

Rock " I bought it yesterday then took Revy training and came back after dusk. I'm thinking of covering the blower opening with metal mesh that has tiny holes everywhere like a flower sieve to prevent things getting in the engine, to describe it in a few words a bug catcher blower grill."

Rock back in Japan was not an average office worker on the weekends he did basic maintenance of his car and apartment to save money, he knew the basics of mechanical repair, electrical repair, plumbing and the basics of a carpenter. The team knew this as he had told them during his employment with them.

Dutch now much more relaxed at the explanation" good choice you've got good tastes and a smart idea you planning to put a super charger in there?."

Rock"I picked up the taste for cars from you, though I had never thought of cars like that before. I was thinking of practicality I don't want things getting in the engine. And to answer your question the previous owner said he had installed a super charger as well."

Revy "if it's ok with you Dutch I'm going back to bed."

Dutch"sure"

Rock" oh yeah Benny I bought a high tech security system for my car could you help install it."

Benny"yeah sure."

Benny"let's have a look at it."

Rock shows Benny the system.

Benny "holy shit that is the most expensive and best one you could get. This car will never be stolen now."

Then Rock and Benny installed the security system while Dutch continued installing the supercharger on the engine of the 351 GT.

Rock then asked Dutch"where can I get the mesh I'm looking for?"

Dutch"just go to north Roanipur there is a good auto parts shop there they will defiantly have the mesh your looking for."

Rock "don't you think that I need a personal key to the garage now that I live here again and have a car parked in it."

Dutch "yeah just get a copy from the spare key on the Pontiac key ring."

Rock was about to get the Pontiac's keys but then Benny was already holding them.

Benny jangling the keys"let's make a road trip out of it I'll show you where it is."

Rock got in his Mustang while Benny got in the Pontiac.

They then drove out heading for the freeway. When they were far from the HQ and just before entering the freeway they were forced to stop at the red lights, they were right next to each other. Benny then revved his engine, Rock responded in kind by revving his own. This was going to be fun. The lights turned green and the two muscle cars wheels screeched as they sped off , they entered the freeway swerving in between cars till they got to their turn off and slowed down again. They then casually drove the rest of the way to the auto parts store. Rock bought the mesh tools and parts that were suggested to him by the staff after explaining what he wanted to do with his car. He also got the garage key copied. They then drove back and when they entered the freeway again they had another race.

When they reversed their cars into the garage Dutch was finished installing the super charger and was putting the engine back in the car.

Rock then turning off the engine and getting out with Benny doing the same. Rock asked Dutch" what's the plan for the 351 GT."

Dutch"I'm gonna turn this into a bullet proof and explosion proof version and if Revy asks don't tell her she'll probably shoot it to test it before it's ready."

Benny "you should use my armour plating I researched it when finding out about bullet proof armours, it is basically similar to chain mail of old except bullet proof against everything except 50BMG and Steel Core Rounds. Behind the armour you can add small bags of a special mixture of corn flour and water behind it, that I made for my armour that can spread out the impact of the bullet making the armour last longer it is also a lot lighter than 5mm thick steel plate that is normally used. It's what I used when you guys were raining bullets at the pirates from the transport ship, I'm surprised you two don't wear armour."

Dutch "that's actually a good idea Benny"

Rock"instead of buying it and spending shit loads of money we could easily make that. We buy the stuff we need then make the armour. Benny you can make the corn flour mixture then put it in the bags like you said. We can make the armour. We have all of the tools that we need right here in the service bay."

Dutch "you know what Rock you are absolutely right.

Rock"a tank like that could have been useful many times even from the first day in Roanipur it was insane how we some how managed to not get hit Dutch you should also get bullet proof glass installed and on the door windows there should be a way to open the top of the glass to let fresh air come in and it can be locked back up with three thick door bolts on each window."

Dutch "That's a great idea Rock I'll make sure that all armour or glass can be able to take 7.62 NATO rounds."

Rock then starts working on making the cover for the bug catcher blower. After about 4 hours he had made tested and installed the bug catcher blower grill.

Dutch had reinstalled the engine and had removed all the panels, Dutch then called a Sheet metal place and took a panel there wanting the panel to be stretched and bent in such a way that it would keep its design but allow space for the armour to be installed behind it as well as space to put a panel for the armour to rest on. He got a trailer and put all the panels then drove to the sheet metal place to get the work done, while there he bought enough steel plate and got it laser cut into circles they were put in a crater that had a pallet underneath for forklifts. Then he drove to a glass making factory who then after listening for what he wanted sent him to a polymer factory that made bullet proof glass for vehicles that Presidents, Kings, Prime Ministers, Warlords and billionaires around the world were driven in. He then gave them the specifications of the door windows then the front and back windscreens, as well as the openings he wanted for the doors.